Jones County Texas Archives - History of Sunnyside School District - 1927 *********************************************************** Submitted by: Dorman Holub Date: 19 January 2020 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/jones/jonestoc.htm *********************************************************** The Stamford AmericanThursday, July 14, 1927Sunnyside School District No. 39 has $3,000.00 outstanding bonded indebtedness. Thevaluation of the district is $219,610.00. The local tax rate is 50c. The bond taxrate is 20c. The area of the district is 17 square miles. The building is locatedabout five miles west of Stamford on the Stamford-Hamlin highway. The trustees areMessrs. Earl Osment, J.W. Benson, and E.C. Tidwell. The teachers are Miss KathrynMcQuary and Mrs. Elsie Reed Moore.The Sunnyside which became officially known by the name in September 1901 was firstknown as Davis School because of its situation on the Davis farm. It was twice movedbefore it became permanently located on the present site and generally known asSunnyside.Sunnyside acquired its name from one of the Literary Societies of the Davis schoolwhich was named for the home of the American Poet, Washington Irving.One of SunnysideÕs early teachers was Miss Luella Hauk, principal of our school in1912-1913 who is now our County Superintendent of Public Instruction.The community in general is prosperous. There are three modern homes in the communityand a number of well-built colonial homes which denote prosperity. E.F. Osment, E.D.Appling, and Fredie Walker have Delco lighting systems and water pumped into theirhomes.Most of the people are cotton farmers. Mr. E.D. Appling runs in connection with alarge farm a small dairy which he finds very profitable. Mr. Appling, Henry Osmentand A.N. Reed make profits from bred chickens.About 90 percent of the land of the district is farm land. Five percent is pastureland and five percent ranch land. The farmers of this district terrace and farmaccording to improved methods.The school is not behind the district as to measures of progress, in fact thecitizens of the community count the school the center of progress and take pride inthe fact that the eight month term, teachers with first grade certificates, fourkinds of playground apparatus, (this is the only rural school in Jones county thathas an ocean wave as playground equipment) well-built and well-kept school house andout buildings, all help the school in making sufficient points to score as a standardrural school according to the score card sent out by the State Department ofEducation.This is the only school in Jones county that scores as much as 800 points for theschool year of 1926-1927.